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DuckDBDataFrame

This is the development version of DuckDBDataFrame; to use it, please install the devel version of Bioconductor.

DuckDB-Backed DataFrame and Table Structures


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Provides DuckDB-backed implementations of core tabular data structures including DuckDBTable, DuckDBDataFrame, and DuckDBColumn. These classes extend Bioconductor's S4Vectors framework to enable efficient, out-of-memory operations on large tabular datasets using DuckDB's analytical database engine. The package includes SQL function discovery, connection management, and support for list columns and embeddings stored in ARRAY[] columns.

Author: Patrick Aboyoun [aut, cre], Genentech, Inc. [cph]

Maintainer: Patrick Aboyoun <aboyounp at gene.com>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("DuckDBDataFrame")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("DuckDBDataFrame")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("DuckDBDataFrame")
1. Introduction to DuckDBDataFrame HTML R Script
2. Design and extension of DuckDBDataFrame HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text
LICENSE Text

Details

biocViews DataImport, DataRepresentation, Infrastructure, Software
Version 0.99.20
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.24 (R-4.6)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 4.6.0), methods, stats, bit64, S4Vectors, IRanges
Imports tools, BiocGenerics, S4Arrays, SparseArray, DelayedArray, Matrix, DBI, rlang, dplyr, dbplyr, duckdb, arrow, tibble
System Requirements
URL https://github.com/Genentech/DuckDBDataFrame
Bug Reports https://github.com/Genentech/DuckDBDataFrame/issues
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Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, testthat
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package DuckDBDataFrame_0.99.20.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) DuckDBDataFrame_0.99.20.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) DuckDBDataFrame_0.99.20.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/DuckDBDataFrame
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/DuckDBDataFrame
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/DuckDBDataFrame/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/DuckDBDataFrame/
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